For our preschool year we are just planning a fun layed back year with FIAR volume 1. I'm not ready to start my daughter into formal math for preschool, but I thought she'd enjoy a nice math computer game. The time she's playing would allow me to give her 3 turing 4 sister some one on one time. I need one I purchase and own the disk (and don't have to pay a monthly fee). It could be either Pre-k or K level. Any recommendations?
www.funbrain.com is a free website that has a lot of great games for all subject areas and start at grades K-6. Also if you go to www.umizoomishop.com you can purchase a preschool math kit that goes along with the educational show Team Umizoomi. Good luck!
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My son's 1st grade teacher recommended www.ixl.com and my son likes it. It has preschool level options and he did it for free for about a month before the website asked us to pay to keep using it. So you get to try it out before paying the low monthly subscription (we didn't ever officially sign up since my son gets plenty of math at school, but if he's bored over the summer I'll sign up for it since he loves math). www.starfall.com is a good educational website for reading basics and other fun activities
starfall is good, the school uses and its fun. also try funbrain.com
Jump Start is good too, and try Hooked on Phonics, I thought they had a math program
I am very sorry to tell you this, but your child will learn more from 1 on 1 interactions. So why not play some counting game with you child, and numerical games with them, such as baking a batch of cookies and counting the amount the amount on the tray, while also practicing adding and subtracting skills such as:
"If I ate 2 cookies then how many would be left or if I add another pan of cookies how many will we have altogether and show the child how to write the number down---hence also practicing handwriting skills which computers do not teach!!"
There is much more that a parent can do to prep their kids for school then turning on a computer to occupy their time and take responsibility for a parents job. Spending time with your kids offer precious moments and skills that may last a lifetime, turning on a computer just shifts the responsibility to a machine!
